usermount - Unix, Linux Command

NAME

SYNOPSIS

usermount [
options ]

userformat [
device ]
[
options ]

DESCRIPTION

usermount is a graphical tool to allow users to easily manage removable media,
such as floppy disks or zip disks. When the tool starts up, it scans
/etc/fstab for all filesystems that have been configured to allow users to mount
and unmount them. The filesystem can be mounted or unmounted by
pressing the toggle button labeled
Mount.

Also, if the user has the appropriate permissions for the device, the
Format button will be active. This allows the user to format disks using
fdformat and create a new filesystem of the type listed (using
mkfs with the appropriate option). Naturally, the user will be prompted for
confirmation before actually destroying data on the device.

Note that if a device is already mounted, the format button is
inactive for all entries that share the same device.

When run as root,
usermount displays all of the entries in
/etc/fstab rather than just the ones with the
user option.

OPTIONS

This program has no command line options of its own, but it does take
the standard X program options like
-display and such. See the
X(1)
man page for some of the common options.

FILES

Tag

Description

/etc/fstab

The system file describing the mountable filesystems.

SEE ALSO

fdformat(8),
mkfs(8),
fstab(5)
X(1)

BUGS

Mount entries with a filesystem type of iso9660 are outright
considered CD-ROMs and the format button is always disabled.

Mount entries for swap files or partitions are also ignored. A nice
feature might be to allow root to turn swap on and off for swap
partitions.